33 Verbs to Use for the Word hag
Her task was to discover each especial grace, long since buried by the rubbish which time and folly had heaped upon it; in each old, yellow, wrinkled hag to find the charm which had once adorned her: as she found the grace, it was transferred to her own youthful person.
This beating the patient with thorn was thought to be really beating the hag who had caused the evil.
The idea became too terrible; I started, opened my eyes, and beheld the execrable hag before mentioned standing over me with a butcher's cleaver.
You can imagine the consternation of the king, when the coach door opened and instead of his blooming bride out bounced two hideous hags!
The South Slavonian peasant believes that witches ride in the dark hail-clouds; so he shoots at the clouds to bring down the hags, while he curses them, saying, "Curse, curse Herodias, thy mother is a heathen, damned of God and fettered through the Redeemer's blood."
Aye, and had it not been for your father wanting a house-keeper, the Holy Office would have burned the hag, and sent her to hell, flaming like a torch of pine knots.
" "Your news grows stale," croaked a hag who was passing; "go to the Piazzetta and you shall see the head of one who prayed before the altar ten minutes ago.
"Neah!" cried the hag, furiously.
And to make his meaning perfectly clear, he added: "You cursed old hag!"
He turned on me a blank look; then, directing his eye to the woman, "You infernal hag," he exclaimed, "all this comes from you!"
Those who have ever witnessed a sea-island witch-dance can bear me out, and I think a man may dread a hag and be no coward either.
It was he who dressed up for me a hag that nightly sate upon my pillowa sure bed-fellow, when my aunt or my maid was far from me.
"You drugged the hag, good Gunn," he continued.
They sat on their haunches and cheered ironically, and made small bets, and encouraged the frantic old squaw hags who, at imminent risk, were trying to disintegrate the snarling, rolling mass.
He found that the best way out of such a dilemma was to engage the first old hag that came along and leave it to her to ward off the others.
It needed but the presence of Hecate and her weird band to realize that horrible creation of poetic fancy, and I fancied the "black and midnight hags" concocting a charm around this horrible cauldron.
I never could abide the hag, but she has such aThere!
" "Liar!" hissed the hag.
You shall not have him, by the living God!" "Senecas, take him!" howled the hag, pointing at the officer.
As I recollect, Hammond introduces a hag or witch into one of his love elegies, where the effect is unmeaning and disgusting.'
I would kill that damnable old hag, and take all she is possessed of, without any qualm of conscience," exclaimed the student excitedly.
"You miserable hag!"
As the figure did not move he gave it a kick and his leg was caught in the birdlime; then he said, "Let me go, you old hag, or I will give you a slap."
He saw hell-hags with death's-heads sporting and swarming on his bed.
'Twould frighten her off in a moment, and she'll send in her place either an old hag of a woman called Hagar, or her proud sister Theo, whom I cannot endure.